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xdg-open not setting default handler for x-scheme-handler/magnet

Submitted by boo..@..it.com

Assigned to Portland Bugs

Link to original bug (#105836)

Description

I'm on Arch Linux with xdg-utils 1.1.2.

Expected behaviour:

Opening a magnet link with xdg-open will open that link in the default bittorrent application.

Actual behaviour:

Opening a magnet link with xdg-open opens the link with the browser. Probably not the same as bug 96472, in my case $BROWSER variable is not set and xdg-mime query comes back empty.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Set the default handler for magnet links: xdg-mime default rtm.desktop x-scheme-handler/magnet

1a. Check if 1 was set succesfully: $ cat ~/.config/mimeapps.list [Default Applications] x-scheme-handler/magnet=rtm.desktop

1b. Make sure that $BROWSER is not set: $ echo $BROWSER

  1. xdg-mime query is coming back up empty: $ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/magnet

  2. Run xdg-open magnet:?xt=foo.

  3. The magnet link will be opened by the browser instead of the default application for magnet links.

Various blog posts suggested that the issue might be due to the xdg-open not recognising DE properly - sadly, my shell-fu is not up to the task to asses it. For what it's worth, I'm using a tiling wm instead of full-blown DE.

Version: 1.1.0 rc3